Communication Strategy

• What am I trying to achieve with this?
  • Educate and create awareness about unhealthy lifestyles and body figures that the media projects as a reality.

• What is my message?
  • Question the images that saturate the beauty market. The proliferation and wide acceptance of manipulated beauty are unattainable and damaging to the psyche.

• Who am I trying to target the message too?
  • The most impressionable age that is susceptible to media manipulation. Also targeting all consumer of images to create an awareness of the artificial product that they are consuming.

• What is my audience target demographic?
  • Primarily females but no exclusion to males.
  • Teenagers 13-18
  • Anyone with access to media outlets such as television, magazines etc.

• What is the best way to reach them?
o High school presentations, programs, posters etc.
o Advertising campaigns similar to DOVE campaign supporting real beauty
o Magazine adds such as cosmo, seventeen that show the fake images
o Facebook
• What messages I am putting out?
o Images are photoshopped and touched up so they are not real portrayals of people
o Beauty is not purely physical appearance, it is inside and out
o Impossible to achieve the modelesque images portrayed in mainstream media – even they are photoshopped
• What change am I trying to bring out?
o Audience perception of media images
o To create a better understanding of how the media portrays images, to get people to understand that it is not real or achievable
• What are the influences I want to bring?
o Ideally to have the media portray images of real people and not just models
o Not doing the touch up’s and photoshopping to the extreme


Marketing the way you do it:
• Objectives
o Reduce the amount of eating disorders in female teens by 40%
o Reduce negative self-esteem issues and cases of depression in females teens by 40%
• Goals
o Educate and create awareness about unhealthy lifestyles and body figures that the media projects
• Audience
o Females,
o Teenagers
o North American/western cultures
o Middle class – upper class
• Key Message
o Images are photoshopped and touched up so they are not real portrayals of people
o Beauty is not purely physical appearance, it is inside and out
o Impossible to achieve the modelesque images portrayed in mainstream media – even they are photoshopped
• Strategy
o Educate our demographic through their school systems
• Tactics
o Presentations
o Posters
o Websites
o “real beauty” campaign
• 30 second commercial
o before/after images
• Measurements
o Tba

Division of labour
• Website – group effort
• Poster - Cheryl Lindsay
• Commercial – alex
• Presentation – marina
• Before/after images – group effort




Cheryl Lindsay
• 20 year old female
• middle child (older sister, younger brother)
• 2nd year CCIT student, VCC specialist
• graphic design, logo design, marketing/advertising
• snowboarding and wakeboarding
• cottage/travel
• friendly, outgoing
• most important thing in life – to be happy with yourself